{"id":2660,"date":"2022-06-20T16:33:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T20:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montgomerymag.com\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2022-06-20T16:33:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T20:33:32","slug":"then-now-store-of-willis-burdette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montgomerymag.com\/then-now-store-of-willis-burdette\/","title":{"rendered":"Then &#038; Now: Store of Willis Burdette"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2661\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2661\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2661\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montgomerymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/064-229A001-scaled-e1655756880431.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.montgomerymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/064-229A001-scaled-e1655756880431.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.montgomerymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/064-229A001-scaled-e1655756880431-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.montgomerymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/064-229A001-scaled-e1655756880431-768x668.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.montgomerymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/064-229A001-scaled-e1655756880431-696x606.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.montgomerymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/064-229A001-scaled-e1655756880431-483x420.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Montgomery History<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sometime in the early 1900s, a boy posed in the yard of the Anderson House at the corner of West Montgomery and South Adams Street in Rockville. Behind him was the store of Willis Burdette. The store is gone now, replaced by the Bell\u2019s Corner shopping center. The house still stands, now used as a law office.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2662\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montgomerymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/LDS_1468-scaled-e1655757139967.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"564\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by David Stuck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime in the early 1900s, a boy posed in the yard of the Anderson House at the corner of West Montgomery and South Adams Street in Rockville. Behind him was the store of Willis Burdette. The store is gone now, replaced by the Bell\u2019s Corner shopping center. 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